Beauty
The decline of beauty
Why has the concept been rejected by the art world?
The tyranny of beauty
We all enjoy a looker, but that does not justify rampant discrimination
Your face is the new interface
The ugly future of facial recognition
The children of Terezín
The human will triumph over the technological in culture
Political correctness contra aesthetics
Public life is becoming uglier, duller and more soul-destroying
Pastoral pleasures
Delighting and relaxing away from the city
Aryan idol
On the surprising legacy of an iconic eleventh century sculpture.
A civilised discussion
If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about
The ugly truth
Genuine art needs more material support
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
